{"id":221,"date":"2017-06-06T11:05:07","date_gmt":"2017-06-06T10:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/research-3\/?page_id=221"},"modified":"2025-10-23T10:56:47","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T09:56:47","slug":"our-team","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/met-spate\/our-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Group members"},"content":{"rendered":"<table style=\"width: 100%;height: 1513px\" cellpadding=\"5\">\n<tbody>\n<tr style=\"height: 34px\">\n<td style=\"height: 34px;text-align: center\" colspan=\"2\">\n<h2><b>Academic staff<\/b><\/h2>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 103px\">\n<td style=\"width: 100px;height: 103px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-523\" src=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/met-spate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/11\/Giles-290x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"290\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/met-spate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/11\/Giles-290x300.jpg 290w, https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/met-spate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/11\/Giles.jpg 514w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 290px) 100vw, 290px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 103px\">\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.met.rdg.ac.uk\/~swshargi\/\">Professor Giles Harrison<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Giles Harrison is professor of atmospheric physics. His research interests span atmospheric electricity, eclipse meteorology, volcanic plume electrification, solar-terrestrial relationships and novel weather measurements.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 135px\">\n<td style=\"height: 135px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-529\" src=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/met-spate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/11\/mike_lockwood.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"197\" height=\"277\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 135px\">\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.personal.reading.ac.uk\/~ym901336\/index.html\">Professor Mike Lockwood<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Prof. Lockwood has wide-ranging interests in solar-terrestrial physics from the solar corona to the upper atmosphere and in solar influences on global and regional climates. Currently working in constructing a space weather climatology that extends back over the past 400 year using models and analysis of space-age data.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 143px\">\n<td style=\"height: 143px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-521\" src=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/met-spate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/11\/christopher_scott.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"209\" height=\"296\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 143px\">\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.met.reading.ac.uk\/userpages\/jk902720.php\">Professor Chris Scott<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Chris Scott studies the impact of the Sun and Solar wind on the Earth and its atmosphere. Research topics include; improving space-weather forecasting, the ionospheric enhancement in response to lightning; solar wind influence on lightning rates and long-term changes in the ionosphere. He has also been investigating the response of the ionosphere to solar eclipses.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 115px\">\n<td style=\"height: 115px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1297\" src=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/met-spate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2023\/11\/MO_headshot.png\" alt=\"Headshot of Prof. Mathew Owens\" width=\"158\" height=\"185\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 115px\">\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.met.reading.ac.uk\/~vy902033\/\">Professor Mathew Owens<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Mathew Owens is Professor of Space Physics. He is primarily interested in the solar wind and its space weather impact.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 122px\">\n<td style=\"height: 122px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-525\" src=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/met-spate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/11\/KAN_photo.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"135\" height=\"154\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 122px\">\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.met.reading.ac.uk\/~jq902220\/\">Dr Keri Nicoll<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Dr Keri Nicoll is a NERC Independent Research Fellow investigating the effect of energetic particles on atmospheric processes. Her wide range of research areas include atmospheric electricity, ionisation and aerosol charging processes, instrument development, and airborne measurements from balloons and unmanned aircraft.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 122px\">\n<td style=\"height: 122px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1300\" src=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/met-spate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2023\/11\/JOD_headshot-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Headshot of Dr James O'Donoghue\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/met-spate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2023\/11\/JOD_headshot-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/met-spate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2023\/11\/JOD_headshot-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/met-spate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2023\/11\/JOD_headshot-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/met-spate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2023\/11\/JOD_headshot.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 122px\">\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/odonoghuespace.github.io\">Dr James O&#8217;Donoghue<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Dr James O&#8217;Donoghue is a STFC Ernest Rutherford Fellow.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 144px\">\n<td style=\"height: 144px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1299\" src=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/met-spate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2023\/11\/avatar_small_sub-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Headshot of Dr Luke Barnard\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/met-spate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2023\/11\/avatar_small_sub-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/met-spate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2023\/11\/avatar_small_sub-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/met-spate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2023\/11\/avatar_small_sub-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/met-spate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2023\/11\/avatar_small_sub.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 144px\">\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/lukebarnard.github.io\/\">Dr Luke Barnard<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Dr Luke Barnard is a UKRI Future Leaders Fellow focussing on space weather forecasting. He is interested what we can learn about coronal mass ejections and the solar wind from Heliospheric Imager instruments, in particular using data assimilation and citizen science approaches.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 34px\">\n<td style=\"height: 34px;text-align: center\" colspan=\"2\">\n<h2><b>Research staff<\/b><\/h2>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 144px\">\n<td style=\"height: 144px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1234\" src=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/met-spate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/10\/matt_lang_headshot.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 144px\">\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/meteorology\/people\/matthew-lang\/r\/\">Dr Matthew Lang<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Dr Matthew Lang is a postdoctoral researcher in space weather data assimilation. He works on developing data assimilation schemes for both the ambient solar wind and coronal mass ejections and investigates how this affects the performance of space weather forecasts.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 144px\">\n<td style=\"height: 144px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1234\" src=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/met-spate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/10\/Chitradeep-Saha-284x300-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 144px\">\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/deephysics1729.github.io\/\">Dr Chitradeep Saha<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Dr Chitradeep Saha is a Postdoctoral Research Assistant. He is currently working on long-term solar magnetic activity reconstruction.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 34px\">\n<td style=\"height: 34px;text-align: center\" colspan=\"2\">\n<h2><b>PhD students<\/b><\/h2>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 106px\">\n<td style=\"height: 106px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1456\" src=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/met-spate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/04\/Renzo-Lam-300x296-1.jpg\" alt=\"Headshot of Renzo Lam\" width=\"300\" height=\"296\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 106px\">\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/meteorology\/people\/pak-yin-renzo-lam\/\">Renzo Lam<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Renzo&#8217;s project is titled &#8216;Probabilistic Assessment of Concurrent Space Weather Phenomena for Extreme Scenario Modelling&#8217; and is supervised by Prof. Mathew Owens and Dr Luke Barnard.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 106px\">\n<td style=\"height: 106px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1303 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/met-spate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2023\/11\/SW_headshot-e1699269065744.jpg\" alt=\"Headshot of Sarah Watson\" width=\"148\" height=\"200\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 106px\">\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/meteorology\/people\/sarah-watson\/\">Sarah Watson<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Sarah&#8217;s project is titled &#8220;Solar wind interactions with planetary bodies&#8221; and is supervised by Prof. Chris Scott.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 106px\">\n<td style=\"height: 106px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1302 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/met-spate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2023\/11\/NEI_headshot-e1699268985733.jpg\" alt=\"Headshot of Nathaniel Edward-Inatimi\" width=\"145\" height=\"199\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 106px\">\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/meteorology\/people\/nathaniel-edward-inatimi\/\">Nathaniel Edward-Inatimi<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Nathaniel&#8217;s project is titled &#8216;Smarter Ensembles for Space Weather forecasting&#8217; and is supervised by Prof. Mathew Owens and Dr Luke Barnard.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 106px\">\n<td style=\"height: 106px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/met-spate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2024\/09\/DG_headshot.png\" alt=\"Headshot of Dechen Gyeltshen\" width=\"141\" height=\"195\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 106px\">\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/meteorology\/people\/dechen-gyeltshen\/\">Dechen Gyeltshen<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Dechen&#8217;s project is titled &#8216;The dynamics of coronal mass ejections between the Sun and Earth&#8217; and is supervised by Prof. Mathew Owens and Dr Luke Barnard.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Academic staff            Professor Giles Harrison  Giles Harrison is professor of atmospheric physics. 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